\Mus"ter\, n. [OE. moustre, OF. mostre, moustre, F.
montre, LL. monstra. See {Muster}, v. t.]
1. Something shown for imitation; a pattern. [Obs.]
2. A show; a display. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
3. An assembling or review of troops, as for parade,
   verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or
   introduction into service.
         The hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty.
                                               --Hawthorne.
         See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs,
         and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton.
4. The sum total of an army when assembled for review and
   inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
         And the muster was thirty thousands of men.
                                               --Wyclif.
         Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and
         proclaim them to amount of thousands. --Hooker.
5. Any assemblage or display; a gathering.
         Of the temporal grandees of the realm, mentof their
         wives and daughters, the muster was great and
         splendid.                             --Macaulay.
{Muster book}, a book in which military forces are registred.
{Muster file}, a muster roll.
{Muster master} (Mil.), one who takes an account of troops,
   and of their equipment; a mustering officer; an inspector.
   [Eng.]
{Muster roll} (Mil.), a list or register of all the men in a
   company, troop, or regiment, present or accounted for on
   the day of muster.
{To pass muster}, to pass through a muster or inspection
   without censure.
         Such excuses will not pass muster with God. --South.

\Mus"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mustered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Mustering}.] [OE. mustren, prop., to show, OF. mostrer,
mustrer, moustrer, monstrer, F. montrer, fr. L. monstrare to
show. See {Monster}.]
1. To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade,
   inspection, exercise, or the like. --Spenser.
2. Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get
   together. ``Mustering all its force.'' --Cowper.
         All the gay feathers he could muster. --L'Estrange.
{To muster troops into service} (Mil.), to inspect and enter
   troops on the muster roll of the army.
{To muster troops out of service} (Mil.), to register them
   for final payment and discharge.
{To muster up}, to gather up; to succeed in obtaining; to
   obtain with some effort or difficulty.
         One of those who can muster up sufficient
         sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits.
                                               --Hazlitt.

\Mus"ter\, v. i.
To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or
the like; to come together as parts of a force or body; as,
his supporters mustered in force. ``The mustering squadron.''
--Byron.